House Updates now on Brownstoner.com!
So, if you don't know this about me already, I bought a house in Brooklyn with my boyfriend in 2012 and we spent an excruciating year gut-renovating it (granted, it used to be a heroin den and then was abandoned for 6 years, so making it livable for humans again…
Why I Love Charles Schwab
So first of all I have to say I'm not sponsored by Schwab in any way (although I should get on that, I rep them pretty hard) but I am a true convert. Reasons why: 1. Their checking account - they reimburse your ATM fees AND foreign transaction fees -…
Bondfire Radio Presents: Taxes & You – a Brunch & Budget Special
Back on Bondfire Radio this month - this time they let me and sound provider/co-host/asks-all-the-right-questions-guy, Dyalekt, take the whole hour to talk about taxes! On the show, we talk about: how AirBNB changed the rules on everyone this year and sent out 1099's (which means the IRS knows you made…
Brunch & Budget on TK in the AM!
On January 20, 2014, I was asked to be a guest on Bondfire Radio's TK in the AM, a radio show based in Brooklyn that brings you back to the time when radio was about connecting with listeners, having real conversations, and playing good music. I had a blast with these…
The Debt Snowball!
Today, I had a brunch & budget with a friend of mine and we went through one of my favorite tricks of the trade: the debt snowball! It's a pretty simple concept. Most people who have 2 or 3 (or 4 or 5) lines of credit will say, hey, I'll…
Some Basics on Buying a House
So at the rate that I've been talking about this, everyone and their mom and their bubby probably knows that I recently bought a house with my boyfriend (I keep a separate blog for it - sowerebuyingahouse.wordpress.com - if you want to actually read about all my neurotic thoughts and freak outs).…
Finding Your Buffalo: Asking Yourself the Big Why
Many moons ago, I began my serial blog writing habit (seriously, I have like 5 of them in various states of defunct). The first blog I started was about money (of course) and I wrote about saving. I posted it on LiveJournal (and I'm totally dating myself) and I got this comment from a random dude: Well, this…
Why You Need a Health Care Proxy!
When most people hear the phrase financial planning, they mostly think money management, budgeting, investments, etc. But financial planning also encompasses things like insurance, retirement planning, and estate planning. Estate planning, you say. Don't you have to have an estate to plan for one? For a lot of what goes into…
Your Money Personality
Here’s the thing. You can read every personal finance book and learn every budgeting trick and cut up your credit cards and decide you’re really going to commit this time, but if you’ve never examined why you treat money the way you treat it, you’ll always end up back where you started.…